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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Undone
Breathing
Sweet
Take
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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